In this episode Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Adrian Jennings, chief product officer at Cognosos, to discuss how tracking equipment can save hospitals millions.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Sally Collins professor of obstetrics at University of Oxford a year on from winning the #MedTechExpo PITCH competition with the Oxford Neural Network Toolkit, which automatically measures the value, metrics, and vascularity of the placenta from a single 3D ultrasou…

In this episode Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talks to Amanda Philpott CEO and co-founder of eargym about the risks of hearing loss and how it can be prevented using auditory training.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode of the MedTalk Podcast, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News and Oliver Johnson, editor of Med-Tech Innovation News discuss what's going to be on stage at MTI Expo this year.With only three weeks to go until the show, make sure to register for FREE now: https://shorturl.at/mALX3…

On this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talk to Fifi Kara, co-founder and CEO of Aster where they will discuss the all-in-one women’s health patient management platform.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode of the MedTalk Podcast, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Olivia Simpson, founder of SymbioTex, about how seaweed can be a more sustainable replacement to plastics.Simpson also talks about her journey as a start-up and shares advice for fellow start-ups.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode of the FemTech Series, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Laura Friedl-Hirst, managing director at LFH Regulatory about the regulations process for FemTech devices.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Renee Bailey, the senior manager of human factors engineering at BlackHagen, to talk about the importance of, and how to address the potential challenges of designing instructional materials.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Ian Bolland, former Med-Tech Innovation editor, talks to Eamonn McGowran associate director of regulatory affairs at Boyds about the relationship between Ireland and the UK, now that the two countries will be operating according to two different regulatory systems in a post Brexit world.Av The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Dr. Chung Looi, CEO of Ablatus Therapeutics about the affect fibroids has on women and how this can be treated with ablation technology.Av The MedTalk Podcast

On this episode Ian Bolland, former editor of Med-Tech Innovation talks to Amy Russell, managing director, Russell Regulatory Consultants, and discusses her journey to becoming a regulatory consultant. We discuss the issues that she and medical device manufacturers are facing during a time of immense change and also get Amy’s thoughts on what she w…

On this episode of the Talking Regs series, Ian Bolland, former editor of Med-Tech Innovation News, talks to Fiona Maini, senior director - global compliance and strategy at Medidata Solutions about the regulatory landscape in the medical device and pharmaceutical sector.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Ian Bolland is joined by Mark Ratnarajah from C2AI, who talks about driving insights into practical healthcare solutions and how his role, background and experience has formed his views on how data and AI technology can aid the healthcare sector.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Olivia Friett is joined by guests from recent and future episodes of the FemTech Series for International Women's Day to discuss the current landscape for women in medtech.The guests will cover the lack of female representation in medtech in both devices and executive positions, their personal experiences, what they hope the future holds for women …

Ian Bolland is joined by Sam Stephens from TBAT Innovation and Alistair Wilson from Septest as the duo discuss the launch of the 2024 Innovation Challenge. Stephens explains how the challenge has grown as it enters its third running, while Wilson explains what the effect of being the second winner has had on his company, as well as explaining how h…

Olivia Friett is joined by Stiliyana Minkovska, founder and CEO of Matrix Health and Care, to discuss the current femtech climate and their product which is a digitally enabled, AI-supported pelvic assessment and diagnosis device, designed for self use.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Olivia Friett, editorial content producer for Medical Plastics News is joined by Tess Cosad, CEO and co-founder at Béa Fertility, to discuss fertility treatments and how their product that’s designed to help someone get pregnant without hormones and IVF can be used affordably at home.Tess Cosad discusses launching a femtech product in a highly regu…

Ian Bolland, group content manager at Rapid MedTech is joined by Simon Lord, head of innovation at the Alzheimer’s Society and George MacGinnis, health ageing challenge director at Innovate UK to discuss the Longitude Prize for dementia. The prize is awarded to the creator of a breakthrough technology that learns from a person living with dementia,…

For the first in the FemTech series on the MedTalk Podcast, Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Nicola Thorn, CEO of AND Technology Research and Laurie Rowe, Founder and Director of Red Medtech. Thorn explains more about the Tento+ platform and what it does, the progress that has been made since its launch at Med-Tech Innovation…

Ian Bolland and Olivia Friett caught up with Arjun Luthra, commercial director of BioInteractions at COMPAMED 2023. At COMPAMED, BioInteractions relaunched its Astute coating, its coating which can unclot blood. Luthra explains how the product fits into its range, how it’s different from its germ killing coating and the vision of the company to mak…

Ian Bolland, group content manager of Rapid Medtech, is joined by Sylvia Smit from myMonX to discuss the role of artificial intelligence and their role in wearables. The duo also discuss Sylvia’s background and how she ended up working in the healthcare space following her previous work in the financial services sector.…

Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Michiel van den Berg, Director of Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Development at TekniPlex to discuss methods of recycling, legislation on the subject and what companies can do to improve their recycling rates.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Philipp Prüße, Head of Sales of Dimensionics as they discuss how archimedes density determination works in medical technology.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, speaks to David Regan, CEO of Sona Nanotech and Darcy Hart, Optics Engineering Director from Minnetronix Medical to discuss Sona’s Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy (THT) using gold nano rods, and how it differs from other therapies used to treat cancer.Av The MedTalk Podcast

For World Mental Health Day, Ian Bolland is joined by Dr Emilia Molimpakis, co-founder and CEO of Thymia, to discuss how the platform was developed, attitudes towards AI being used to try and treat mental health, and how a video game style technology can aid diagnosis and treatment.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Ian Bolland is joined by Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress as he provides some insight into the challenges of diagnosing sepsis and the technology that is being developed to tackle it. Included in this episode is Carlson explaining how the company is developing an early detection diagnostic for sepsis.…

Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Konrad Brodaczewski, COO and Dr Andrzej Decewicz, product development manager at Grena, as they discuss both the business and medical aspects of developing medical devices and bringing them to market.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Recorded earlier this year, Medical Plastics News Editor Olivia Friett is joined by David Gray, Head of Content for British Plastics & Rubber and Interplas Insights to preview Interplas 2023. They discuss what's on offer for those operating in the medical device sector at this year's show, as well as the new and special features as Interplas marks …

Ian Bolland is joined by Professor Sul Mahmud, the director of healthcare of BT Health to discuss how the company supports the way the NHS works, new solutions that are being introduced as well as the use in technology within the sector and the possible changes that will entail.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Olivia Friett is joined by Mick Fry, an engineer at Minnetronix Medical to discuss how to reduce the systemic complexity of medical devices. Fry shares the facts on where and when medical devices become overly complicated, the best time to find opportunities to reduce complexities and how to highlight solutions upfront.They also go into detail on h…

Live from Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2023 (recorded 7th June), Ian Bolland is joined by Laurie Rowe from Red Medtech, Laura Friedl-Hirst from LFH Regulatory and Fiona Maini from Medidata to discuss the latest regulations and challenges facing medical device companies both in the UK, and those trying to access the UK market. The panel begins by discus…

Ian Bolland is joined by Sam Stephens, Director of TBAT Innovation to discuss the company's Innovation Challenge which aims to support businesses and people with great ideas, and bring them to market. Stephens talks us through the type of support The Innovation Challenge can offer to applicants, with the help of the inaugural winner from 2022, Srij…

After launching the new Tento+ dashboard at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2023, Dr Nicola Thorn, CEO of AND Technology Research had a brief chat with Ian Bolland about the product and where the idea came from. Find out more about Tento+ by visiting www.tentoplus.comAv The MedTalk Podcast

Editor of Medical Plastics News Olivia Friett and Group Content Manager of Rapid Medtech Ian Bolland sit down for a brief discussion that gives you a whistle-stop tour of the Med-Tech Innovation Expo's conference offering for 2023. This features sessions from the Office for Life Sciences, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, the Department of Health and Soci…

Ian Bolland is joined by Kevin Brownsill, head of technical: learning and development at Intertronics. They discuss the different challenges faced when manufacturing in the medical industry compared to other markets, the roles adhesives can play in medical device manufacturing, as well as looking ahead to Kevin's presentation on Day Two of Med-Tech…

Ian Bolland is joined by Lorna Green from LYVA Labs to discuss the work it has done with life sciences companies in the Liverpool City Region, the range of innovations it has come across, how it assesses the new ideas that come their way, and whether the focus on regional investment and accelerators is the way forward.…

European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Rebekah Jordan and Med-Tech Innovation's Ian Bolland are joined by Richard Williams from Healome Therapeutics discuss the challenges of going from a university spin-out to a successful company, and how to go against the conventional business model in biotech.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Ahead of her seminar at Med-Tech Innovation Expo, Jasmin Hounsell, founder and CEO of Evolene, joins Ian Bolland to discuss how companies can market their medical technology innovations.They discuss how this can go hand-in-hand with working to gain regulatory and clinical approvals as Jasmin previews her session which will take place on 7th June: P…

Previewing her talk at Med-Tech Innovation Expo, Ian Bolland is joined by Sarah Denham, Principal Consultant at Wilmington Healthcare as they discuss what's needed to bring a good innovation or medical device to market by thinking about what else that needs to be considered for it to be adopted by healthcare systems such as the NHS.…

To mark International Women’s Day, Ian Bolland is joined by Rhian Owen from law firm Slater Heelis, to discuss the progress, or indeed in some cases the lack of progress, that has been made, when it comes to representation of women in life sciences and the corporate world.They also discuss the barriers that women still face including investment and…

Recorded at MD&M West in Calfornia, Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett, along with group portfolio sales manager Caroline Jackson, is joined by Arjun Luthra, commercial director at BioInteractions and Aaron Johnson, vice president of marketing and customer strategy at Accumold. Luthra announces some exciting news from BioInteractions’ lates…

Ian Bolland is joined by Lucy Jung, CEO and founder of Charco Neurotech. Ahead of Med-Tech Innovation Expo and the Med-Tech Innovation Awards submission deadline, the duo discuss Charco’s accolade in 2020 and the journey the company has been on since then.Jung also explains hers and the company’s passion for innovation around helping people with Pa…

Recorded prior to the Christmas break, Ian Bolland is joined by Sonia Neary, a digital health advocate and managing director of Wellola.The pair discuss the appetite for technology when treating conditions, how to keep people out of hospital if possible, the current backlogs being seen by health services – including the NHS; and diversity challenge…

In the first episode of 2023, Ian Bolland is joined by Zillah Anderson from Faculty AI to discuss the use of data in healthcare, how AI can be used for good, the development of a COVID-19 NHS early warning system, and what 2023 has in store in this space.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Med-Tech Innovation News editor Ian Bolland is joined by debutants Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, and European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer editor Rebekah Jordan to review 2022, comment on the newbies introduction to life sciences and highlight what to expect from 2023. This includes reference to a previous episode of the MedTalk Po…

At the Med-Tech Innovation Expo during the Med-Tech Innovation Conference, Joanne McGrath and Julia Eades from Roche along with GP Dr Anne Connolly to discuss research and ways to address inequalities when it comes to women's health. Find out more about the Med-Tech Innovation Expo at www.med-techexpo.comThis podcast is sponsored by Arena, a PTC co…

Ian Bolland is joined by Alan Foreman, CEO of B-Secur, who explains how one project has evolved into a diagnostic tool that could have exciting implications for healthcare. This episode is sponsored by Arena, a PTC business.Av The MedTalk Podcast

Recorded at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2022, Darren Clark from Medilink Midlands hosts a panel session offering advice and insights to start-ups trying to break into the medical technology market. On the panel is Martin Hunt from NIHR, Karen Taylor from Deloitte, Kevin Kiely from Medilink UK, Paul Rawlinson & Kate Pym from Tutum Medical and Christian…

To mark World Mental Health Day, Ian Bolland is joined by by George Jones, director of mental health from Livi, to talk about the impact the pandemic has had collectively on mental health, access to technologies and services, and what can be done to tackle the challenges brought about from those suffering from poor mental health.…

Ian Bolland is joined by Charlie Rapple, co-founder of Kudos, which tries to make research and information surrounding healthcare and other subjects as accessible and easy to understand as possible. The pair discuss studies into Long Covid and awareness surrounding that, and how it can be treated as a separate disease, but as well as the consumer s…